Hi Amit, First, you need to consider why you need to compare the rendered HTML in the first place. While writing unit tests we don't compare the rendered output most of the time, rather we check the context variables. This is because we don't need to test the render engine of the template language as well in a *unit* test.
For example, in Django unit tests we almost always compare a value in the context dictionary created by a view rather than the eventually rendered template. You could also check if the correct template was invoked. If you are certain that the exact HTML needs to be checked then you will need to normalize the HTML so that the whitespace is ignored, ordering of attributes is consistent, etc. You can check the assertHTMLEqual() implementation in Django (docs <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/tools/#django.test.SimpleTestCase.assertHTMLEqual> and source <https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/test/testcases.py#L633-L651>). I think the implementation converts the HTML to Python objects which can be easily compared. Regards, Arun On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 5:40 PM, konark modi <modi.kon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can you share few examples of valid and invalid cases. ? > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Amit Sethi <amit.pureene...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi All , I plan to port my html templates for mail to a new templating > > engine. So i am setting up some unit tests for that. However I am not > > sure how do i compare two html strings for equality. There might be > > places where the strings generated may be different from my test > > samples but they may render as similar. How should I tackle that. I > > tried consuming both the strings as BeautifulSoup objects and > > comparing the result. But still i get failure for htmls which I think > > are same. > > > > > > Thanks > > Amit > > > > -- > > A-M-I-T S|S > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > BangPypers@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
